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Andasta Cyclosina
''Andasta'' is a genus of Theridiosomatidae, ray spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon, Eugène Louis Simon in 1895. Species it contains four species, found in Asia and on the Seychelles: *''Andasta benoiti'' (Roberts, 1978) – Seychelles *''Andasta cyclosina'' Simon, 1901 – Malaysia *''Andasta semiargentea'' Simon, 1895 (Type_species, type) – Sri Lanka *''Andasta siltte'' Michael Saaristo, Saaristo, 1996 – Seychelles (Silhouette Island) See also * List of Theridiosomatidae species References Further reading * * * * * Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Africa Spiders of Asia Theridiosomatidae {{Theridiosomatidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4,000 species. Work on spiders His most significant work was ''Histoire Naturelle des Araignées'' (1892–1903), an encyclopedic treatment of the spider genera of the world. It was published in two volumes of more than 1000 pages each, and the same number of drawings by Simon. Working at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, it took Simon 11 years to complete, while working at the same time on devising a taxonomic scheme that embraced the known taxa. Simon described a total of 4,650 species, and as of 2013 about 3,790 species are still considered valid. The International Society of Arachnology offers a Simon Award recognising lifetime achievement. The Eocene fossil spider species '' Cenotextricella simoni'' was named in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and southeast of the Arabian Sea; it is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. Sri Lanka shares a maritime border with India and Maldives. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo is its largest city and financial centre. Sri Lanka has a population of around 22 million (2020) and is a multinational state, home to diverse cultures, languages, and ethnicities. The Sinhalese are the majority of the nation's population. The Tamils, who are a large minority group, have also played an influential role in the island's history. Other long established groups include the Moors, the Burghers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiders Of Africa
Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every land habitat. , 50,356 spider species in 132 families have been recorded by taxonomists. However, there has been debate among scientists about how families should be classified, with over 20 different classifications proposed since 1900. Anatomically, spiders (as with all arachnids) differ from other arthropods in that the usual body segments are fused into two tagmata, the cephalothorax or prosoma, and the opisthosoma, or abdomen, and joined by a small, cylindrical pedicel, however, as there is currently neither paleontological nor embryological evidence that spiders ever had a separate t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araneomorphae Genera
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha) are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their close kin), where they point straight down. Araneomorphs comprise the vast majority of living spiders. Distinguishing characteristics Most spider species are Araneomorphae, which have fangs that face towards each other, increasing the orientations they can employ during prey capture. They have fewer book lungs (when present), and the females typically live one year. The Mygalomorphae have fangs that face towards the ground, and which are parallel to the long axis of the spider's body, thus they have only one orientation they can employ during prey capture. They have four pairs of book lungs, and the females often live many years. Image:Atrax robustus.jpg, This ''Atrax robustus'' shows the orientation of Myglamorphae fangs. Image:Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Theridiosomatidae Species
This page lists all described species of the spider family Theridiosomatidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog : A ''Andasta'' ''Andasta'' Simon, 1895 * '' A. benoiti'' (Roberts, 1978) — Seychelles * '' A. cyclosina'' Simon, 1901 — Malaysia * '' A. semiargentea'' Simon, 1895 ( type) — Sri Lanka * '' A. siltte'' Saaristo, 1996 — Seychelles B ''Baalzebub'' '' Baalzebub'' Coddington, 1986 * '' B. acutum'' Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2016 — Brazil * '' B. albonotatus'' (Petrunkevitch, 1930) — Puerto Rico * '' B. baubo'' Coddington, 1986 ( type) — Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil * '' B. brauni'' (Wunderlich, 1976) — Australia (Queensland) * '' B. nemesis'' Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China * '' B. rastrarius'' Zhao & Li, 2012 — China * '' B. youyiensis'' Zhao & Li, 2012 — China * † ''B. mesozoicum'' Penney, 2014 C ''Chthonopes'' '' Chthonopes'' Wunderlich, 2011 * '' C. cavernicola'' Wunderlich, 2011 — Laos * '' C. jaegeri'' Wunderlich, 2011 ( type) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silhouette Island
Silhouette Island lies northwest of Mahé in the Seychelles. It is the third largest granitic island in the Seychelles. It has an area of 20.1 km2 and has a population of 200, mostly workers on the island. The main settlement is La Passe, where ''Hilton Hotel'' is located. The name Silhouette was given after Étienne de Silhouette (1709-1767), the French minister of finances under Louis XV. Geography The island is mountainous with five peaks over in elevation; Mont Dauban , Mont-Pot-a-Eau , Gratte Fesse , Mont Corgat and Mont Cocos Marrons . As such, it has some of the most dramatic scenery of the islands. Though superficially similar to neighbouring islands, much of Silhouette is made up of younger syenite dated from 63 million years ago. Between Point Ramasse Tout and Point Zeng Zeng lies the only surface volcanic ash in Seychelles. Demographics The population of 200 lives in 3 villages, Grand Barbe (no longer inhabited), which is on the west coast, Anse Mondon (no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Saaristo
Michael I. Saaristo (1938 – 27 April 2008) was a Finnish arachnologist, with a particular interest in the spiders of the Seychelles. The World Spider Catalog lists 61 genus names or synonyms and 109 species names or synonyms of which he is the sole or co-author. His account of the spiders of the Seychelles was published in 2010, after his death, with the assistance of Yuri M. Marusik. The spider genera '' Saaristoa'' and '' Saaristattus'' were named after him. The World Spider Catalog The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ... lists 15 species with the specific name ''saaristoi'', honouring him. References Arachnologists 1938 births 2008 deaths Finnish zoologists 20th-century zoologists {{zoologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andasta Siltte
''Andasta siltte'' is a species of ray spider that is endemic to the Seychelles. It is only known from a single specimen from Silhouette Island. It is found in woodlands at the lower edge of cloud forest. It is threatened by habitat deterioration, from invasive plants (especially ''Cinnamomum verum ''Cinnamomum verum'', called true cinnamon tree or Ceylon cinnamon tree, is a small evergreen tree belonging to the family Lauraceae, native to Sri Lanka. The inner bark of several other ''Cinnamomum'' species are also used to make cinnamon, but ...'') and climate change. References Theridiosomatidae Critically endangered animals Endemic fauna of Seychelles Spiders described in 1996 Spiders of Africa {{Theridiosomatidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type Species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s). Article 67.1 A similar concept is used for suprageneric groups and called a type genus. In botanical nomenclature, these terms have no formal standing under the code of nomenclature, but are sometimes borrowed from zoological nomenclature. In botany, the type of a genus name is a specimen (or, rarely, an illustration) which is also the type of a species name. The species name that has that type can also be referred to as the type of the genus name. Names of genus and family ranks, the various subdivisions of those ranks, and some higher-rank names based on genus names, have such types. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andasta Semiargentea
''Andasta semiargentea'', is a species of spider of the genus ''Andasta''. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. See also * List of Theridiosomatidae species This page lists all described species of the spider family Theridiosomatidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog : A ''Andasta'' ''Andasta'' Simon, 1895 * '' A. benoiti'' (Roberts, 1978) — Seychelles * '' A. cyclosina'' Simon, 1901 — Malay ... References Theridiosomatidae Endemic fauna of Sri Lanka Spiders of Asia Spiders described in 1895 {{Theridiosomatidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime Malaysia–Thailand border, border with Thailand and Maritime boundary, maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia, and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital, the country's largest city, and the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia, legislative branch of the Government of Malaysia, federal government. The nearby Planned community#Planned capitals, planned capital of Putrajaya is the administrative capital, which represents the seat of both the Government of Malaysia#Executive, executive branch (the Cabine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andasta Cyclosina
''Andasta'' is a genus of Theridiosomatidae, ray spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon, Eugène Louis Simon in 1895. Species it contains four species, found in Asia and on the Seychelles: *''Andasta benoiti'' (Roberts, 1978) – Seychelles *''Andasta cyclosina'' Simon, 1901 – Malaysia *''Andasta semiargentea'' Simon, 1895 (Type_species, type) – Sri Lanka *''Andasta siltte'' Michael Saaristo, Saaristo, 1996 – Seychelles (Silhouette Island) See also * List of Theridiosomatidae species References Further reading * * * * * Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Africa Spiders of Asia Theridiosomatidae {{Theridiosomatidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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